cannot run ADB: the operation requires elevation

Question

I recently started learning React-Native and was trying to run a project on Android emulator.However, this was succeeded at the first attempt, but now It doesn't, throwing the following error.

Execution failed for task ':app:installDebug'.

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\\Users\\Pavindu\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk\\platform-tools\\adb.exe": CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation

Since this is a well known error message,I could find lot of answers regarding this error.The following were the actions I took according to those answers.But none of those helped me.

1. Running both android studio and cmd as administrator
2. Running cmd /c react-native run-android
3. Deleting node_modules and npm install

It is a great favor done,if anyone can help me in this case.Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It appears to be an Android emulator problem.

Change the AVD setting to use "Use Host GPU."

That'll solve the problem.

Select 'Hardware GLES 2.0' to enable host GPU

Answer 2

After struggling a lot, here is what I did to overcome the problem.

• Copied /Sdk folder and pasted it in a different location while keeping the old SDK folder there.
• Deleted platform-tools folder in copied SDK folder
• downloaded platform-tools from android site and added it to new SDK folder.
• set new SDK location to ANDROID_HOME (I use windows)

and android/build.properties file in my react-native project.

sdk.dir="C:\\\\path\\\\to\\\\new\\\\sdk"

When I run react-native run-android after these steps,all started working fine.

Note: I know that this seems hacky, but as a help for someone, I decided to write this .